Gingerbread Addition Mats

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With Christmas just around the corner, it’s been fun brainstorming and prepping some hands on holiday activities and centers like these Gingerbread Addition Mats. Use them with real gumdrops (yum!) or even use play dough, unifix cubes, or fun Christmas erasers as counters. No matter how you play, these are a great activity for building addition skills within 10.

*Pair with our Gingerbread Centers & Activities for Pre-K/Kindergarten

Gingerbread Addition Mats

These gingerbread addition mats are the perfect addition to my math centers and preparation for this activity is so simple! The kids will love it!

To get these gingerbread mats ready, I printed them out on cardstock and laminated them. This way I can use them with a dry erase marker over and over again.

How to Play

I decided to play with real gumdrops. I recommend giving each kid their own cup of gumdrops to play with. They can play and then eat them!

Or, you can have a designated bowl of gumdrops NOT for eating. I find that most kids will respect that rule because they don’t want to lose the privilege of playing the game.

I used two separate colors of gumdrops to build equations. This gives a good visual for kids that two separate sets are being combined to form a new total.

First we had 2+3. We put out 2 red gumdrops and 3 green gumdrops.

How many gumdrops in all? We have 5! So we wrote 5 in the box with our dry erase marker.

We then cleared off our card and grabbed another to solve!

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